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Configuring Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) NetOps Features

This course will teach you how to configure features in Firepower Threat Defense that are essential to network operations.

Katherine McNamara - Pluralsight course - Configuring Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) NetOps Features
by Katherine McNamara

What you'll learn

Firewalls have been the first line of defense in network security for over 20 years but in the face of constant attacks and breaches, they’ve had to evolve. This new breed of firewalls are commonly referred to as next generation firewalls and have now become a necessity for many companies. In this course, Configuring Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) NetOps Features, you’ll learn to configure features that are most essential to the network team beyond the initial setup. First, you’ll explore the high available options in FTD and their configuration. Next, you’ll discover how to configure essential platform settings such as Quality of Service, Certificates, and so on. Finally, you’ll learn how to how to set up remote access and site-to-site VPN in Firepower. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of FTD needed to configure and tune these critical netops features.

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About the author

Katherine McNamara - Pluralsight course - Configuring Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) NetOps Features
Katherine McNamara

Katherine McNamara is a Cybersecurity Systems Engineer and works with large enterprise customers in California. She has worked in IT for over 10 years, holds a Bachelors and Masters in IT Security, has 2 CCIEs (Data Center and Security), and dozen other industry certifications. Outside of her day job, she runs a blog called network-node.com which provides training articles and videos about ISE and others Cisco security products and helping co-organize the largest Cisco study Meetup group in the world - Routergods.

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